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Aidan Hutchinson

Detroit Lions 2022 Draft Review: Coming up Hutch

Jon HamiltonMay 3, 2022Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions landed hometown hero Aidan Hutchinson with the second overall pick in the NFL Draft. Other things happened, and…
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Howard-Stafford

A Juwan Howard and Matthew Stafford Therapy Session

Jon HamiltonFebruary 24, 2022Detroit Lions,Michigan Basketball
Juwan Howard and Matthew Stafford are legendary figures in the Detroit sports scene. One no longer works here after tapping out to the…
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Dan Campbell

Detroit Lions Season Expectations: Losing with Pride

Jon HamiltonSeptember 11, 2021Detroit Lions
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Change might be an understatement when it comes to describing the Detroit Lions in…
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Detroit Pistons 2021 NBA Draft Review: Our Cade Fire!

Jon HamiltonAugust 2, 2021Detroit Pistons
After decades of draft lottery misfortune, the Detroit Pistons finally had their moment in the spotlight as owners of the first overall pick…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Pistons Draft Lottery Thoughts: Justice League

Jon HamiltonJune 29, 2021Detroit Pistons
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I make a concerted effort to block out narratives when things can be explained purely by numbers and…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Blue

Detroit Pistons Final Thoughts: Tanking With ‘Tude

Jon HamiltonMay 20, 2021Detroit Pistons
Let’s get some cold, hard, ugly truths out of the way right off the jump. The 2020-21 Detroit Pistons just finished with the…
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Detroit Lions 2021 Round 1 Draft Review: Penei Pasta

Jon HamiltonApril 30, 2021Detroit Lions
Ah, draft season. It’s that time of year again when a new crop of fresh young losers faces will have to fake excitement when they get…
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The Warm Take - UM blue

Michigan Basketball: Irregular Season B1G Champions

Jon HamiltonMarch 11, 2021Michigan Basketball
Michigan is a basketball school, and I’m proud of it. My boys just finished off a dominant run through a loaded conference and are now…
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The Warm Take: Ford Field

Matthew Stafford Deserved Better. Now He’s Getting It.

Jon HamiltonFebruary 2, 2021Detroit Lions
Matthew Stafford has always been a polarizing figure in Detroit sports lore. Not sure why though. He’s a hell of a quarterback and a…
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The Warm Take - Lions silver

The Detroit Lions are Committed to a Losing Culture

Jon HamiltonDecember 24, 2020Detroit Lions
I had pretty much checked out on the team I hate to love recently. Outside of fantasy purposes, where my Lions-heavy draft approach has…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Troy Weaver is Making Money Moves in Detroit

Jon HamiltonNovember 30, 2020Detroit Pistons
With a flurry of pre-and-post-draft moves, Troy Weaver has put his stamp all over the Detroit Pistons franchise, and he’s done it in…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Blue

Troy Weaver Takes a Cleaver to Detroit Pistons Roster

Jon HamiltonNovember 22, 2020Detroit Pistons
New Detroit Pistons GM Troy Weaver knows how to make an entrance. Weaver was hired back in June to little fanfare (the world was preoccupied…
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The Warm Take: Lions blue

The Soundtrack to my Detroit Football Frustration

Jon HamiltonNovember 14, 2020Detroit Lions,Michigan Football
It only took three games for the University of Michigan to lock in another disappointing football campaign and crank up the burner on Jim…
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The Warm Take - UM Maize

Michigan Football Flying Under the Radar? Sign me up.

Jon HamiltonOctober 24, 2020Michigan Football
So much has happened in our world since the last time we saw Michigan play a football game, a 35-16 loss to Alabama on New Year’s Day…
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Detroit sewer

The Detroit Sports Misery Rankings

Jon HamiltonOctober 17, 2020Detroit Lions,Detroit Pistons,Detroit Red Wings,Detroit Tigers
Civic pride is the root of my Detroit sports misery. How did you end up here? Yes, it is really that simple. I was born, raised, and…
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THE WARM TAKE - Tigers Blue

Detroit Tigers 2020 Season Recap: Fun While it Lasted

Jon HamiltonSeptember 29, 2020Detroit Tigers
The 2020 MLB 60-game regular season has already come to a close, and like a star shooting across the sky, the Detroit Tigers’ expanded…
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The Warm Take - Lions silver

Detroit Lions: Reasons for Hope – Reasons for Nope

Jon HamiltonSeptember 13, 2020Detroit Lions
I’ve been busy. A new career venture working with the academically underprivileged youth of Detroit while supporting three of my own…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Detroit Pistons Draft Lottery Talk: Go Luck Yourself

Jon HamiltonAugust 24, 2020Detroit Pistons
“I’ve suffered through the years, and shed so many tears.” – 2Pac Clearly ‘Pac was referencing/predicting…
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Detroit Tigers Q1 Report: Pleasantly Surprising

Jon HamiltonAugust 13, 2020Detroit Tigers
Surprising is definitely a word I would use to describe the year 2020, which can go straight to hell and take COVID-19, police brutality…
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The Warm Take - Tigers Orange

Detroit Tigers Opening Weekend Observations

Jon HamiltonJuly 27, 2020Detroit Tigers
So, it looks like we’re really doing this, eh? Yes, despite a Toronto Blue Jays team that was literally homeless on opening day after…
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THE WARM TAKE - Tigers Blue

Detroit Tigers in 2020: Win, Lose, or COVID?

Jon HamiltonJuly 14, 2020Detroit Tigers
We are just days away from the return of Detroit Tigers (ir)regular-season baseball, and the COVID altered campaign will undoubtedly look…
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The Warm Take: City of Champions

Ranking the Current Regimes in Detroit Sports

Jon HamiltonJune 27, 2020Detroit Lions,Detroit Pistons,Detroit Red Wings,Detroit Tigers
In the past week, we’ve seen Sheila Ford Hamp take over the title of Principal Owner and Chairperson of the Detroit Lions from her…
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The Warm Take - Comerica Park

Detroit Tigers 2020 Draft Recap and Review

Jon HamiltonJune 15, 2020Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers and GM Al Avila had a relatively low-stress 2020 MLB Draft experience. They’ve known for nearly nine months that…
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THE WARM TAKE - Tigers Blue

Tigers and Red Wings Draft Talk: We’re Number 1!

Jon HamiltonJune 2, 2020Detroit Red Wings,Detroit Tigers
It’s mayhem out there folks. We have a seemingly endless stream of police brutality and unequal justice, cities quite literally going…
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The Warm Take: Ford Field

Matthew Stafford Deserves Better: Hidden Figures

Jon HamiltonMay 21, 2020Detroit Lions
Matthew Stafford deserves better, and I’m here to do my part.   The longtime Detroit signal-caller has been labeled many things over…
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The Warm Take - Michigan Stadium

Did Jim Harbaugh Actually Say Something Smart?

Jon HamiltonMay 8, 2020Michigan Football
“Jim Harbaugh” and “Smart” in the same title? Get right out of town! It’s been a while since we’ve…
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The Warm Take: Ford Field

Detroit Lions 2020 Draft Recap & Review

Jon HamiltonApril 27, 2020Detroit Lions
For your Detroit Lions, the 2020 NFL Draft started with a bang and ended with a whimper. They came out of the gates predictable by landing…
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The Warm Take - Lions silver

NFL Draft: Detroit Lions Round 2 Wish List

Jon HamiltonApril 24, 2020Detroit Lions
The rapid-fire nature of the NFL Draft has made it difficult for me to write out my 3000-word essays, so I’m getting straight to the…
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The Warm Take: Ford Field

Detroit Lions Day 1 Recap: Okudah Matata

Jon HamiltonApril 24, 2020Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions went predictable on Day 1 of the NFL Draft. They went safe. Went obvious. Passed on the potentially generational arm of…
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The Warm Take: Lions blue

Lions Round 1: Best-Case, Worst-Case, Most Likely

Jon HamiltonApril 23, 2020Detroit Lions
If there’s one thing that quarantine life has taught us, it’s that everyone has an opinion on what the Detroit Lions are going…
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The Warm Take - Lions silver

NFL Draft Do’s and Don’ts: Detroit Lions Edition

Jon HamiltonApril 17, 2020Detroit Lions
Virtual draft 2020 is right around the corner, and it’s a big one for the Detroit Lions…
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The Warm Take: Lions blue

My 1991 Detroit Lions History Lesson

Jon HamiltonApril 7, 2020Detroit Lions
School is out, but that didn’t stop me from assigning myself some homework to keep the old synapses firing. My topic: the 1991 Detroit…
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The Warm Take - Lions silver

Best and Worst of Detroit Lions Free Agency 2020

Jon HamiltonMarch 26, 2020Detroit Lions
The 2020 free agency frenzy has died down, and the Detroit Lions…did some things…
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The Warm Take: Ford Field

Detroit Lions Free Agency: Slay No More

Jon HamiltonMarch 20, 2020Detroit Lions
NFL free agency stops for no one. Even an unprecedented global pandemic isn’t powerful enough to stop talking heads and dorks in their…
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THE WARM TAKE - Bright Side (UM)

Michigan Basketball Loves B1G Tournament Season

Jon HamiltonMarch 11, 2020Michigan Basketball
Michigan Basketball will head into the B1G Tournament as the No. 9 seed in the conference, but in reality, they are closer to being the No…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Blue

Christian Wood: The Detroit Pistons’ New Bad Boy

Jon HamiltonMarch 6, 2020Detroit Pistons
This is a story about a man for whom I have been trying to suppress my love for some time. The Detroit Pistons have a new bad boy. His name:…
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THE WARM TAKE - UM SUNNY

The Warm Take Introduces: The Bright Side

Jon HamiltonMarch 3, 2020Detroit Lions,Detroit Pistons,Michigan Basketball,Michigan Football
If you’ve ever stumbled upon The Warm Take About page, you would find that the inspiration behind the creation of this site came from…
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The Warm Take: Lions blue

Detroit Lions: Cutting Back on Snacks

Jon HamiltonFebruary 27, 2020Detroit Lions
From four-time Pro Football Focus run defender of the year to the unemployment line in one season. How Detroit Lions is that? The Lions cut…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Pistons Deadline Fallout: The Purge of Reggie Jackson

Jon HamiltonFebruary 20, 2020Detroit Pistons
If the trade deadline has taught us anything about the Detroit Pistons’ relatively new front office regime, led by Senior Advisor Ed…
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The Warm Take - UM Maize

Michigan Basketball: Livers Damage

Jon HamiltonFebruary 18, 2020Michigan Basketball
Following Michigan’s 89-65 obliteration of a solid and likely NCAA Tournament-bound Indiana team on Sunday (their 7th straight win…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Blue

Pistons Trade Deadline (pt.2): The Remainders

Jon HamiltonFebruary 13, 2020Detroit Pistons
Despite officially entering the rebuilding phase and being possibly the most talked-about sellers at the trade deadline, the Detroit Pistons…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Pistons Trade Fallout: The Long Night Has Ended

Jon HamiltonFebruary 7, 2020Detroit Pistons
I never knew being wrong could feel so right. It’s been no secret that the Detroit Pistons have been shopping Andre Drummond for some…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Blue

Pistons Trade Talk: Luke Kennard Against Humanity

Jon HamiltonFebruary 4, 2020Detroit Pistons
As Thursday’s NBA trade deadline looms, the Detroit Pistons seem committed to a rebuild or a re-tooling or a re-something. Mediocrity…
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The Warm Take - UM blue

Michigan Basketball: Welcome to the Bubble

Jon HamiltonJanuary 31, 2020Michigan Basketball
The Michigan basketball program’s “nothing to gain, everything to lose” victory at Nebraska on Tuesday ended a four-game…
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THE WARM TAKE Pistons: Red

Trade Talk: A New Vase For Derrick Rose?

Jon HamiltonJanuary 23, 2020Detroit Pistons
This is a Derrick Rose trade discussion. I do solemnly swear that this write-up will not turn into an Andre Drummond bashing….even…
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  • Detroit Lions 2022 Draft Review: Coming up Hutch May 3, 2022
  • A Juwan Howard and Matthew Stafford Therapy Session February 24, 2022
  • Detroit Lions Season Expectations: Losing with Pride September 11, 2021
  • Detroit Pistons 2021 NBA Draft Review: Our Cade Fire! August 2, 2021
  • Pistons Draft Lottery Thoughts: Justice League June 29, 2021
  • Detroit Pistons Final Thoughts: Tanking With ‘Tude May 20, 2021
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